Supreme Court Justice Sonia Maria Sotomayor 1954 – Justice Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court on May 26‚ 2009. A vacancy became open upon the retirement of Justice Souter. If her nomination and approval by the Senate is approved‚ she would become the 111th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her confirmation hearing by the Senate did not go without controversy. Justice Sotomayor gave a speech at the University of California‚ Berkeley
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Mabry v Madison3 ABSTRACT Prior to Marbury v Madison‚ the Supreme Court only received it’s judicial powers through the construction of the Constitution and what legislature enacted. Marbury v Madison was known as the first judicial review conducted by the Supreme Court. As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Marbury v Madison‚ it gave the court its power to review the acts of Congress and the Executive and to oppose any acts of the legislature and the Executive that violated Constitutional
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Arthur James originally filed their case against the state of Ohio to challenge its refusal to recognize their marriage on their death certificates‚ despite being legally married in Maryland. The Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case was formed from four similar same-sex marriage cases originating in Ohio‚ Tennessee‚ Michigan‚ and Kentucky that were consolidated by the Supreme Court under the title of Obergefell v. Hodges. It was accepted by the Supreme Court on January 16‚ 2015 whenever the petitioners
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describe 2 Supreme Court cases and explain how they illustrate the Constitutional Review function of the Court (15 marks) Judicial review is the power of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress‚ or actions of the executive-or acts or actions of state governments-unconstitutional and therefore null and void. This power is not mentioned in the Constitution but it is said that the Supreme Court ‘found’ the power for itself in the 1803 case of Marbury v Madison which was the first case that declared
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In the Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller‚ the Court analyzed the meaning and extent of the Second Amendment for the first time since 1939. In narrow 5-4 decision penned by Justice that the District of Columbia’s ban on handgun was unconstitutional and thus violates the individual right granted by the Second Amendment. The Justices of the Supreme Court interpreted the Second Amendment as the right of individuals to keep and bear arms‚ having nothing to do with collective right grant
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Before making the final decision the court considered the following factors‚ length of delay‚ prejudiced to the accused‚ explanation for the delay‚ and Waiver of Appellants. The Supreme Court then concluded that the delay of 2 years after the appellant’s preliminary trial was unreasonable. The Crown did not justify the institutional delay and did not prove that the
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Not a lot of people today are racist because of the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement is for the people to be good and they made more laws to make people to be even better.Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by making people to lessen African American:Shelley v. Kraemer‚Plessy v. Ferguson‚and Brown v. Board of Education. The cause Plessy vs. Ferguson made a law requiring restaurants‚ hotels‚and hospitals to serve African Americans.States began to require
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In the case US v. Calandra (1974)‚ Calandra was being questioned by the federal grand jury about loan sharking business. The reason the jury was asking these question were based on the evidence obtained at his company. Calandra didn’t want to answer any questions because he felt that the search of the company was an unlawful search and that it violated his fourth amendment exclusionary rule. The refusal to answer the grand jury‚ was what was being question about this case. Calandra felt like because
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petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. The Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) is a landmark case that established whether or not students leave their 1st Amendment rights at the school gate. In December 1965‚ Mary Beth Tinker‚ a 13-year-old junior high student‚ gathered a group of students and decided to wear black wristbands that protested the Vietnam War. When asked to take the wristbands
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Can the power of the Supreme Court be justified in a democracy? (25 mark) The Supreme Court is the only branch of government which is unelected and therefore unaccountable‚ but appoints members for life. These characteristics have been criticised for being out of place in a democratic country such as the United States; especially due to the power the Supreme Court has‚ such as the power of judicial review. However while it could be argued to have too much power‚ in a liberal democracy such as America
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